Re: Implement support for TCP_KEEPCNT, TCP_KEEPIDLE, TCP_KEEPINTVL - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Tom Lane wrote:
> So the postmaster-log message may be the best we can do ...
> but I don't think we should drop the connection.

Here's a patch to do that; it appears to work as intended on my Linux
system.

-O
Index: src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c,v
retrieving revision 1.178
diff -c -r1.178 pqcomm.c
*** src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c    30 Jul 2005 20:28:20 -0000    1.178
--- src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c    12 Sep 2005 00:58:15 -0000
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*** 595,612 ****
              return STATUS_ERROR;
          }

!         /* Set default keepalive parameters. This should also catch
!          * misconfigurations (non-zero values when socket options aren't
!          * supported)
           */
!         if (pq_setkeepalivesidle(tcp_keepalives_idle, port) != STATUS_OK)
!             return STATUS_ERROR;
!
!         if (pq_setkeepalivesinterval(tcp_keepalives_interval, port) != STATUS_OK)
!             return STATUS_ERROR;
!
!         if (pq_setkeepalivescount(tcp_keepalives_count, port) != STATUS_OK)
!             return STATUS_ERROR;
      }

      return STATUS_OK;
--- 595,607 ----
              return STATUS_ERROR;
          }

!         /* Set default keepalive parameters. We ignore misconfigurations
!          * that cause errors -- they will be logged, but won't kill the
!          * connection.
           */
!         pq_setkeepalivesidle(tcp_keepalives_idle, port);
!         pq_setkeepalivesinterval(tcp_keepalives_interval, port);
!         pq_setkeepalivescount(tcp_keepalives_count, port);
      }

      return STATUS_OK;